Circus themed art projects

Bring the magic of the carnival into your own home with these fun crafts and sweet recipes!

These Grade 3s were working with a circus theme in their classroom when they made these trapeze artists. The trapeze itself is just a stra...

Circus Craft: Trapeze Artist I found this awesome trapeze artist craft on Pinterest when we were doing our circus unit. The idea comes from the site, Use Your Colored Pencils. I followed the basic instructions from Use Your Colored Pencils, but adapted it to what we had in our classroom craft cabinet. Materials straw string

My elementary school chooses a theme each year and this year the theme is Circus! Making art with a common theme or medium is a good ...

Free circus printables to color and use for our fun collection of circus crafts for kids or use them for your own circus-themed crafts and activities.

We love all things simple in this house, which might be why paper plate crafts are such a hit. No need for anything too fancy, complicated, or expensive for my kids to get creative with. We like things like paint, paper, glue, yarn, tape, and paper plates. We really like paper plates. So much so

The Whitney Museum currently has a show featuring Alexander Calder's Circus project. Read more about Calder and the exhibit in the New York Times HERE and HERE. Last spring, my Second and Third grade students studied the work of Alexander Calder and learned about his fascination with the circus. Then, students used their knowledge of Balance and Motion to create an amazing Flying Circus with household items such as toilet paper rolls, straws, yarn, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and Styrofoam.